Teacher Writes Letter Using Pearson Vocabulary by Diane Ravitch

A teacher wrote this little essay and dedicated it to Governor Andrew Cuomo:

“There is a man in Albany, who I surmise, by his clamorous paroxysms, has an extreme aversion to educators. He sees teachers as curs, or likens them to mangy dogs. Methinks he suffers from a rare form of psychopathology in which he absconds with our dignity by enacting laws counterintuitive to the orthodoxy of educational leadership. We have given him sufferance for far too long. He’s currently taking a circuitous path to DC, but he will no doubt soon find himself in litigious waters. The time has come to bowdlerize his posits, send him many furlongs away, and maroon him there, maybe Cuba?

She added:

I’m not supposed to say this, but all these insanely hard words appeared on the 4,6, and 8th grade tests last week.

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Comment by Bruce Deitrick Price on April 28, 2015 at 5:47pm

RE: "The time has come...."

I've just been thinking the last few days that the time has come for everyone to take a stand. There Is so much nonsense in our public schools. By remaining silent, even if you don't actively approve the nonsense, you're supporting it. (According to all statistics, half the kids in these grades can't even read, not at any really  proficient level. Throwing in a hard vocabulary is just another level of confusion, not just for the kids, but for the adults who might be trying to assess what's working and not working.)

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